POOR Magazine is a poor people–led/Indigenous people–led, grassroots, non-profit arts organization dedicated to providing revolutionary media access, art, education, and advocacy to silenced youth, adults, and elders in poverty across Mama Earth.
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Video journalism including RoofLESS Radio
Main Schedule
Here's what we do at a glance.
All of POOR's programs are focused on providing non-colonizing, community-based and community-led media, art and education with the goals of creating access for silenced voices, preserving and degentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, landlessness, indigenous resistance, disability and race locally and globally.
PPE will be provided at all in-person events
Roofless Radio
Reporting and supporting with hot healthy meals, supplies, tents, jackets, and revolutionary media
3 times a week in encampments across the so-called Bay Area
Broadcasting local and global news of struggles with poverty, racism, disability, incarceration, (im)migration, and more
Every Tuesday (6–8 PM) and Thursday (4–6 PM) on 96.1 FM
Non-hierarchical circle for decisions about all of our broadcast, written, televised, photographed, and spoken news
First Thursday of every month at 1 PM
8032 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland
Poverty skolaz learn to write, publish, and sell books through POOR Press
Once a year
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Free library of revolutionary and liberatory poetry, fiction, and more
Available year-round by appointment
Contact to schedule a visit
Poor People's Radio Workshop
Teaching poverty skolaz how to share our powerful stories on the radio
2–3 times per year
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Launched by Tiny (@povertySkola) on Mama Earth Day 2016. We will come to your part of settler stolen/occupied, Po'Lice predated Turtle Island (or anywhere on Mama Earth) to pray, vision, dream teach, and share Radical Redistribution, ComeUnity Reparations, and Homefulness with wealth-hoarders, inheritors of stolen Mama Earth, and/or protected/occupied wealth neighborhoods.
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Radical redistribution of fresh foods, healthy meals, supplies, and resources to our community, rain or shine
Thursdays at 12 pm
8032 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland
Poverty Journalism Workshop
For poverty skolaz learning to write our own news
Tuesdays at 9:30 AM
Education designed for our Black and Brown youth poverty skolaz and leaders of the future
Monday – Friday, August – June
Hybrid online/in-person
Revolutionary education for both poverty skolaz and folks with race, class, and formal education privilege
Begins January and August every year, total of 5 day-long sessions over 2 months
Danza Azteca Practica (Aztec Dance Practice)
A form of prayer and ceremony offered through our feet and bodies in dance
Year-round
Contact to join
Houseless and formerly houseless youth and elder poverty skolaz at POOR Magazine will come to your encampment, university, church, or town and share the medicine (template) of Homefulness—a homeless, landless, self-determined movement/solution to homelessness
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Visit the POOR Press Store for new publications!
Written from the voices of youth, adults and elders in poverty who are never heard in corporate and even independent media, these pieces of writing and artwork are truly unlike anything else found in the traditional world of publishing today. These books allow the reader to experience and learn about the very personal struggles and resistance of each author.
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